Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1″

Samsung must hand over samples from its current and incoming smartphone and tablet range, along with marketing materials, to Apple's legal team as part of an "expedited discovery" process to see whether allegations of design similarity are accurate. That's the ruling of San Jose Federal Judge Lucy Koh, Courthouse News reports, who brought forward access to the Samsung Galaxy S II, Galaxy Tab 10.1, Galaxy Tab 8.9, Infuse 4G and DROID Charge after Apple "produced images of Samsung products and other evidence that provide a reasonable basis for Apple's belief that Samsung's new products are designed to mimic Apple's products."

Samsung helped lead the Android tablet charge last year, with the original Galaxy Tab, a 7-inch slate which even Google admitted may have been released before the OS was ready. Now, with Android 3.0 Honeycomb tablets like the XOOM, G-Slate and Eee Pad Transformer on the market, Samsung is back with its second attempt, the larger Galaxy Tab 10.1. Heavily reworked - even after its first official appearance - in order to better compete with the iPad 2, Samsung has high hopes that this is the slender slate to knock Apple off its pedestal. SlashGear brought back the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 Limited Edition white version from Google I/O 2011 this week; check out the full review after the cut.

Back at the beginning of May, we had gotten an invitation to a Samsung Mobile event in New York on May 24th. After the Infuse 4G was announced on May 5th, we had hoped to see either the Galaxy Tab 10.1 or the Galaxy S II being announced at this event. But today, we received a terse message letting us know that the event has been postponed to "a later date".

At Google I/O earlier this week, we did a hands-on for the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1, as well as an epic unboxing of "limited edition" versions of the slate, not to mention an exclusive "unboxing" by Google senior VP Vic Gundotra. But now we get word that the ultra thin and lightweight tablet may be heading to Verizon as its first carrier and sport speedy 4G LTE.

Samsung's 5,000 strong Galaxy Tab 10.1 Limited Edition giveaway at Google I/O this week won them a few fans, but behind the scenes it seems there was plenty of controversy over who would get to give out freebies to the attending developers. Inside word among developers, Android coder Al Sutton tells us, is that HTC wanted to give every attendee an HTC Flyer as well as an unspecified smartphone from its range; however, Google decided to go with Samsung instead.

Behold the most excellent unboxing and hands-on video you'll ever experience, ever, your entire life. The video you're about to see has two major players, Ben Bajarin representing Android Community and Vincent Nguyen representing SlashGear, who will for your enjoyment both unbox the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 at the same exact time. In this video they both show you exactly what's going on with the tablet in fair detail. Which unboxing is better? That's for you to decide - and that's how you'll be winning your very own Samsung tablet in the very near future!

On the morning of May 10th, 2011, live at Google I/O, we were given an exclusive unboxing and hands-on of the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 by none other than Vic Gundotra! Have a look with us at this device that will soon be given to every single attendee of the conference, a device that will go down in history as one of the mega-devices! We've already had a couple looks at this tablet as of late, but this is the big one, let me tell you. Once we get this device in our possession in ernest as well, we'll be giving you all the info you need on it to engrain it in your brain for need to purchase in the future.

This is the big announcement above all other announcements, that everyone attending the conference would be getting a device of some great significance. This is the big deal, the huge one that makes for the future of the platform, the device given out is the one that takes the cake for the rest of the year - so what is it? A Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1, a fully functional one, for every single one of the 5,000 attendees of the conference. Are you excited? If you're there, you definitely should be.

Monday the 9th of May 2011 and Google I/O has started with an early gift to us all! It's the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1, a device we got a very early hands-on with at CTIA 2011. When we were allowed to take that particular hands-on trip with the tablet (and its slightly smaller sibling) the device wasn't yet a working unit. It was just sitting pretty and empty with a separate tablet device made for showing off Samsung's new TouchWiz UX, a mobile operating system set to come out next to TouchWiz 4.0 as a tablet-specific version of Samsung's signature overlay for Android 3.0 Honeycomb. Today we get to see a white version of the 10.1 Galaxy tablet with fully functional guts!

Samsung Mobile has announced a second event for May, sending SlashGear a teaser invite for a launch that will take place on May 24 in New York. The invite will follow Samsung and AT&T's "special announcement" on May 5 which is expected to be the launch of the Infuse 4G.

Samsung may have had 3D video-on-demand to announce at IFA 2011 this morning, but the company was also demonstrating its smart TV streaming system that can squirt a live video feed from a D7000 or D8000 series HDTV to one of the company's Android-based devices. We grabbed some hands-on time to see whether this is the setup to retire your SlingBox for; check out the video demo and more after the cut.